Happy Thanksgiving Family!!:)

   Hey so you should just send the package straight to my apartment. It will be a lot easier. My address is 370 W. Cherry street North Liberty, Iowa 52317.

   It is really a great and fun opportunity I get to serve this district so I'm excited. We had our first district meeting a couple of days ago and it went really well. We set our goals and are all really excited to reach them. As a mission we are going to have to work extremely hard for this next month because we are pretty far away from our mission goal so we all just need to grow the faith sufficient to let the Lord do his work.

      Well, Elder Winchester is gone and I've got to say that it is really nice just being in a companionship again. We no longer have to jump into our beds from the foot of our beds ha. Elder Ragozzine and I just stacked the extra mattress and box spring underneath our own beds. Its pretty comfortable. Well we have a lot going on right now!!! We have 5 on date right now for the month of December and Pam and Shawn are getting baptized this weekend. We got them all interviewed and they are ready to go!! We also might start teaching her son who she is living with. He is a funny guy and has been taught before but never clicked with the missionaries, but he was having trouble with keeping the cold from coming in the cracks of his door and I showed him how he could just go get some silicone and seal up all those places that were letting cold air in (Thanks Dad) Haha silicone is always the trick. We are also still trying to get the Mongolian lady baptized but she just struggles with coming to church. I have no idea why either. All she does is go to school and nothing else. She has to have at least an hour on Sunday to come. Ha and then we are still working with those one kids and that is quite the experience that's for sure. They always start arguing and fighting while we are teaching the lesson and telling one another how they aren't going to be ready for baptism and stuff. Ha it's ridiculous. They always have to out-do each other. So we were thinking about splitting them up next lesson and teaching them one on one because its just to hard to teach when the spirit of contention is in the room. But they also did not come to church like they said they would the day before. So that was a bummer. We really have a lot of work to do to make sure that we can keep these people progressing towards their dates.

         We have been doing some good knocking lately, looking for some prepared people who could be baptized by the end of this year and we haven't had too good of luck, but this one lady who was in her 20's invited us right in off the doorstep and her boyfriend was in there so thankfully we were able to go in and teach her. She said that she has really wanted to the book of Mormon so that was cool. It still might be awhile before we can get her baptized though because she is living with her boyfriend. Those ones are always tough to deal with. I also taught a little bit in Spanish yesterday on a doorstep. Ha it was really fun. It will be a great referral for the Hermanas.

        For Thanksgiving we are going over to the Henstroms. They are way awesome people. So that should be really good. This week we are finally going to get the car back!! I'm really excited for that. Hopefully I can get all approved to drive because the roads are kind of getting icy now. But this week we are going to get everything ready for the baptism so it should be really fun. Tell Sam congrats on Mr. RHS. I wish that I could've had the guts to do that ha. Maddy keep shredding up the hill for me!!! Love you all!!!:) Take care and have a great Thanksgiving.

Love Elder Polatis